Apple To Assemble Mac Pro In The U.S.
The U.S. manufacturing industry isn’t a lost cause after all: Apple has made good on its promise to make the new line of Mac Pros in America. There were very few details announced during the keynote at Apple’s WWDC today, but we’re guessing they’ll be assembled in Apple’s new Texas plant. The slope of decline in U.S manufacturing has gone from bunny slope in the 1960s to double-black diamond in the 90s and 2000s. Manufacturing was 29 percent of jobs in the 1960s, but fell to just 9 percent in 2011. Recently, we’ve seen an uptick of a half-million jobs from 2010-2012, which marks a positive new trend — however mild — in the beleagured sector. And Apple wants to take all the credit it can. CEO Tim Cook has been teasing a return to the homeland during a PR blitz. For instance, at last month’s Congressional grilling over Apple’s $13 billion in tax dodging, Cook reminded the fawning politicians how many valuable jobs the company provides in the U.S. Apple isn’t the first ...
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American-Made Macs: What’s The Big Picture?
As the Internet begins its Kremlinological reading of Tim Cook’s recent interviews (and make no mistake that these interviews are a calculated effort to brush away multiple company missteps), let’s explore what his point, the dream of Macs Made In America, means for the company and, more importantly, the renaissance of manufacturing in the U.S. Building stuff in America isn’t hard, and it’s happening right now. I’d recommend listening to this Planet Money story about manufacturing in South Carolina and the growth of smaller factories across the country. We are building stuff, to be sure, and Apple is right to hitch its wagon to the Made in America slogan. They have, in the past, taken many lumps for real or perceived problems in Asian factories. By placing their factories in America, however, we deal with a set of problems that could overwhelm the benefits. First, for Apple to say they are building in the U.S., there is a parallel requirement that their biggest supplier, Foxconn, ...
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Some Apple iMacs "Assembled In America"
whisper_jeff writes "A number of newly-purchased standard units are showing an "Assembled in America" notation. While the markings don't necessarily mean that Apple is in the midst of transferring its entire assembly operation from China to the U.S., it does indicate that at least a few of the new iMacs were substantially assembled domestically."
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The New iMac: Designed By Apple In California, Assembled In USA
Your next Mac could be assembled in America. Apple is assembling at least some of the new, ultra-thin iMacs within the USA. The backside stamp containing the serial code and FCC logo generally says "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China." But several owners of the new model quickly discovered their machine was made in the good ol' US of A.
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Pols Blur Line Between Data Mining, Cyberstalking
theodp writes "Mother Jones reports on Obama's Digital Gurus, the top-secret team of analytics engineers and scientists led by hipster CTO Harper Reed who work on text analytics, social network/media analysis, web personalization, computational advertising, and online experiments & testing from the campaign's Chicago HQ and satellite offices. For OFA (Obama for America), writes Tim Murphy, there is no such thing as Too Much Information. 'In terms of just the sheer amount of data that political candidates have on you,' says UNC Prof Daniel Kreiss, 'I think everyone finds it creepy.' Still playing catch-up to OFA in its data efforts is Team Romney, which reportedly hired former employees from places like Google Analytics, Apple, Ominture, and Overstock.com in an attempt to reverse engineer the Obama campaign's strategy."
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